ECS

1. Transgender
How Should the Church Respond?
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2. TEACHER’S VIEW

3. Statistics

5. Stats – June, 2020
• 1.7% of individuals in the US identify as being either gay or lesbian
• 1.8% of individuals in the US identify as being bisexual
• An estimated 19 million Americans (8.2% of US population) have engaged in same-sex sexual behavior
An estimated 25.6 million Americans (11% of US population) have acknowledged same-sex attraction.
• 63% of Americans reported that homosexuality should be accepted by society. This was a 123%
increase from the same report in 2006.
• 4.5% of adult Americans (about 11 million people) identified as LGBT.
• In 2012, 3.5% of adult Americans (about 8.3 Million people) identified as LGBT. 5.1% of women identify
as LGBT. Only 3.9% of men identify as LGBT.
• 0.6% of adults (1.3 million people) in the United States identify as transgender. 0.7% of adults ages
18-24 identify as transgender.
• 9.6% of youth ages 18-24 identified as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
• 0.6% of adults age 25 to 64 identify as transgender. 0.5% of adults age 65 or older identify as
transgender.
(Source: https://www.gaytravel.com/gay-blog/lgbt-population-statistics)

7. Statistics

10. Influence
• International Planned Parenthood Federation
• United Nations Population Fund
Want children to have “comprehensive sexuality education”
State officials have been pressured to embrace these initiatives.
To Pre-K and Kindergarten Students:
“Only you know whether you are a boy or a girl. No one
can tell you.”
Anti-Biblical
Romans 1 – Moral Decline of Society (sexual deviation)

12. Influence
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network launched a homophobic scale
in 2009, aiming to be used in 100,000 USA middle and high schools.
Homophobic
- Repulsion
- Pity
- Tolerance
- Acceptance
Non-Homophobic
- Support
- Admiration
- Appreciation
- Nurture

13. Influence
- Kori Doty
Non-binary gender queer trans person
Child named Searyl
Left sex on birth certificate blank
2017 – Canadian authorities wrote in a U
Gender-Free Coalition – “End State
Assigned Gender! The State has no
business in the undies of the Nation”

14. Influence
2014 – Facebook provided 54
ways identifications
2018 - 71 descriptors

15. Influence
• In 2017, a law passed in CA against
care providers misgendering
residents.
• Such care providers could be
imprisoned for up to a year.

16. Influence

17. Influence

18. New Education Secretary Nomination

19. Scriptures
Deuteronomy 22
Context
– Help your brother out in need; take back his stray animal.
– “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's
cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your
God.” (5)
– Think of your neighbor’s safety when building a house.
– Laws about sexual immorality
1 Corinthians 11
- Femaleness and Maleness are valued

20. They explain that “In humans, reproductive anatomy is unambiguously
male or female at birth more than 99.98% of the time.” Humans, just
like most animals and plants, have two distinct biological sexes with the
corresponding anatomy for reproduction. “No third type of sex cell
exists in humans, and therefore there is no sex ‘spectrum’ or additional
sexes beyond male and female. Sex is binary.” Wright and Hamilton

21. Epistemology

22. • What epistemic source do these
individuals use to justify their
identities?

23. MAPS

24. Scriptures
Genesis 1 Mark 10 (Reaffirmation)
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be
fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and
the birds in the sky and over every living
creature that moves on the ground.”
6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made
them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a
man will leave his father and mother and be
united to his wife, 8and the two will become
one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one
flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined
together, let no one separate.”
SIN = MISSING THE MARK

25. God determines gender; God determines purpose
“A life that ignores God’s wisdom misses the mark”

26. LEAD WITH THE GOSPEL
• Unsaved – The “natural man doesn’t desire the things of the spirit” (1
Corinthians 2)
• Gospel – “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and
believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will
be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are
justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and
are saved.” (Romans 10:9-10)
• Salvation produces new affections – “Do not be deceived: Neither
the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who
have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards
nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of
God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were
washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (1
Corinthians 6)

28. Develop Compassion and Love Mercy
Luke 15: 1-3: Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and
eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable:
- Lost Sheep is Rescued - REJOICE
- Lost Coin is Found - REJOICE
- Lost Son Comes Back – REJOICE (father) … OLDER SON (does not rejoice)
25 “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he
heard music and dancing. 26 And he called one of the servants and asked what these
things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed
the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’ 28 But he was
angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, 29 but he answered
his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your
command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes,
you killed the fattened calf for him!’ 31 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with
me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your
brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

29. 1st Corinthians 6:11 - “And Such Were Some of You”